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Get Steny

Posted by Charles II on June 20, 2008

Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, the Republicans, and the Blue Dogs betrayed their oaths of office today by voting to immunize telecommunications companies for their past unlawful wiretapping of Americans. This represents an overreaching of congressional powers into the judicial realm, an obstruction of justice, and a slap in the face to the citizens who brought the lawsuit in the first place. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says:

Privacy rights and the rule of law took a serious blow today when the House of Representatives passed blanket retroactive immunity for phone companies that participated in the president’s warrantless surveillance program. The FISA Amendments Act, H.R. 6304, which House Leadership rushed to the floor today after its introduction yesterday, passed by a vote of 293 to 129. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill next week.

The one Republican who voted Nay is Johnson of Illinois. 105 Democrats joined the treachery:

Ackerman
Altmire
Baca
Baird
Barrow
Bean
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd (FL)
Boyda (KS)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Cardoza
Carney
Castor
Cazayoux
Chandler
Childers
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cooper
Costa
Cramer
Crowley
Cuellar
Davis (AL)
Davis, Lincoln
Dicks
Donnelly
Edwards (TX)
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Engel
Etheridge
Giffords
Gillibrand
Gordon
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Gutierrez
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hinojosa
Holden
Hoyer
Kanjorski
Kildee
Kind
Klein (FL)
Lampson
Langevin
Lipinski
Lowey
Mahoney (FL)
Marshall
Matheson
McCarthy (NY)
McIntyre
McNerney
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Mitchell
Moore (KS)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
Ortiz
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peterson (MN)
Pomeroy
Rahall
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Ross
Ruppersberger
Salazar
Schiff
Scott (GA)
Sestak
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Skelton
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Space
Spratt
Stupak
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor
Thompson (MS)
Udall (CO)
Yarmuth

Here are Steny Hoyer’s opponents: Republican Collins Bailey and Libertarian Darlene H. Nicholas. Bailey is a Christian Rightist with extreme economic beliefs. Darlene Nicholas is a Business Libertarian, who left the Republican Party when she read Ayn Rand. If the thought of supporting either of those makes you ill, you can donate to the Blue America PAC.

This entry was posted on June 20, 2008 at 3:01 pm and is filed under abuse of power, Democrats, FISA, NSA eavesdropping, obstruction of justice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Get Steny”

  1. Kathy said

    June 20, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Will this “law” be challenged in court?

  2. Charles II said

    June 20, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    I don’t see how it can be, Kathy. One would have to argue it on Constitutional grounds, that somehow this does not fall in the purview of Congress. I think that under the Commerce clause it technically does, even though it amounts to a bill of attainder and an interference in the judiciary.

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